dybbuk

Example Sentences

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That’s when she finds out her new girlfriend may be possessed by a dybbuk.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

“She is dealing with the death of her father and her mother’s depression — and then there’s a wandering spirit or dybbuk that is ornery and disruptive,” said Higuera.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

Polish director Marcin Wrona, who wrote the movie with Pawel Maslona, has thoroughly reconceptualized the mythology of the dybbuk for 21st-century Eastern Europe.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2016

Instead, he dies, and his spirit enters her body as a dybbuk — the evil soul of a dead person.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016

My fingers felt numb and inflexible, frozen around the shard as though my skin was just a glove for the dybbuk.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros